Hacker News folk wisdom on visual programming

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  • caraya

    Assertion and unit test framework for LabVIEW

  • No one should ever write code like that and no experienced LabVIEW developer would find that anywhere close to acceptable. And there are no doubt analogs in the text-based world, except you may not even know it because the structure isn’t as visible.

    Also, there are certainly test frameworks for testing LabVIEW code. NI has a few but then JKI, a third party company, has multiple testing frameworks including Caraya, which is similar in philosophy to something like FsUnit for F# or Elixir’s ExUnit.

    https://github.com/JKISoftware/Caraya

  • drakon.tech

    Drakon.Tech is an IDE based on the DRAKON visual language

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  • enso

    Hybrid visual and textual functional programming.

  • Mandatory fanboi mention, and IMO a gross omission of the article:

    https://enso.org/ (née Luna)

    - an open-source language & IDE which aims to insta-kill all the "vs. textual programming" arguments by keeping a strict 1:1 visual<->textual representation translation as a core feature of the language. Go check it out!

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